Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Rats. I guess this is due to the two-pass nature of some algorithm.
> > (Dropping owned by u1 cascade drops the view too, and then when dropping
> > owned by u2, it tries to find the view and the cache lookup fails).
>
> Actually, on looking closer, the problem is that recursiveDeletion fails
> to pass alreadyDeleted down to (and through) deleteDependentObjects.
> So the cascaded delete doesn't get reported back to
> performMultipleDeletions, and it doesn't know to skip the view when it
> gets to it. So this is clearly a bug, and seemingly not so hard to fix.
Hmm, in this case I wonder if this could show up in other cases too,
like DROP SCHEMA.
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